The Banking Situation and the Economy
The Banking Situation and the Economy Until last week the strong state of the economy was pushing a possible…
The Banking Situation and the Economy Until last week the strong state of the economy was pushing a possible…
Inflation Coming Down, but Slowly The Consumer Price Index, the broadest measure of consumer prices, rose 6% annually in…
Job Openings Remain Extremely High Job openings were 10.8 million at the end of January. While down 410,000 from…
What’s Happening with Interest Rates? The Federal Reserve raised its key interest rate again earlier this month. That was…
Consumers Keep Spending Retail sales rose a remarkable 3% in January. That is after declines in November and December,…
Surprise January Jobs Surge The economy added 517,000 jobs in January. No one saw this coming. Consensus expectations were…
Job Openings Defy Expectations in December Job openings rose by 572,000 at the end of December from November to…
Consumer Spending Slows Consumer spending declined in November and December. Consumers’ ability in the last 18 months to keep…
2022 Ends with Strong Economic Growth As expected, the economy grew sharply at the end of 2022. GDP expanded…
Retail Sales Slump in December Retail sales fell a sizeable 1.1% in December. That is after a 1% drop…